A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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